Police in standoff with man involved in crash

Officers have surrounded a house in Springfield trying to get a man who was involved in a Friday night crash to exit the home.

According to Springfield Police spokeswoman Lisa Cox, an officer located a possible suspect vehicle, a black sedan, involved in past criminal activity near Kearney Street and Glenstone Avenue. A man in the vehicle then sped off when he spotted police, but the officer did not pursue the man.

The man later crashed the sedan at Kearney Street and Fremont Avenue and fled on foot, Cox said.

Police used a K-9 to track the man.

Residents in a home on the 2300 block of North Prospect Avenue alerted police that a man matching police description entered their home, which scared them, and then left, Cox said.

Another witness told police, Cox said, that the man entered a different home on the same road and was likely still inside.

Police are at that home now attempting to get the man to exit, Cox said. Officers are talking with the man.

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